A controversial Solana ad highlights the woke/unwoke divide in crypto

A controversial Solana announcement – which was deleted 9 hours after being displayed – stimulated an awakened divide / deposited on Crypto X.

On March 17, Solana’s official account displayed an ad of 2.5 minutes. In the video, a man named “America” ​​tells a therapist his reflections on innovation, such as interplanetary trips, AI and crypto. The therapist diagnoses it with the “rational thinking syndrome” and suggests that he is rather focusing on the creation of a new gender identity. America insists on the fact that it will continue to think about innovation and action, but the therapist advises him to move his objective of verbs (like “to do” and “innovate”) to pronouns.

The announcement was deleted 9 hours after being displayed, despite having collected 1.2 million views, the cryptographic community divided in its tone and its messaging.

Many have called the announcement “creak“,”toxic,” And offensiveprovoking several interesting sockets on the current state of cultural war in crypto.

A user said the announcement was probably trying to “emphasize the fact that the United States woke up from the Woke spirit virus and focus on crypto”, stopping unless you tolerate:

Others have not made the announcement if seriously. For example, a user said That there was nothing in it to go crazy. If it were the pronoun part, he wrote: “It has been pushed stronger in the past four years than any real innovation.”

Joshua Jake of Discover Crypto called The “Brilliant Marketing” announcement.

“Everyone crying that” the crypto is supposed to be decentralized and apolitical “is completely lacking in the point. The ad is designed to be a grumpy rage bait, and you all take the bait – repel its scope even more”, ” said Joshua.

Echoing Jake’s feeling, the disinformation researcher Mike Solana wrote:

“Have you noticed that people go back to 2020 for the big titles of the articles and publish them today for rage baits?” This is because culture has changed, and people who have built identities because the demon pipes have no more demons to kill. They will then turn around. “

Another discord point was the fact that Solana deleted the ad in response to the Community backlashsaying it was an excessive reaction.

“Deleting it means that Solana was shaken”, a user doStressing that Solana would be better if it focuses on network problems rather than reacting to social media noise.

Adam Cochran, partner at Cinneamhain Ventures, said That Solana deleted the ad to avoid other damage to the company – not because they thought it was bad.

Yesterday, the CEO of Solana Labs, Anatoly Yakovenko, presented public apology:

“The announcement was bad, and she always gnaws at my soul. I am ashamed of having minimized it instead of simply calling it what it is – means and strike a marginalized group. I am grateful for the developers and artists of the ecosystem which immediately calls it. Out of cultural wars. »»

In terms of market feeling, Sol opened on March 17 at $ 126.17. But a few hours after the announcement of the ad, the soil price dropped slightly at $ 125.50, with soil closing $ 128.28.